Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

No. - Yolanda

anyone think this is true? - Thomas Hawk

wah!? The timing would be interesting for me because I just had a big "discussion" with a friend last week about how I won't join Facebook because it's not open like FriendFeed. - Ben Reierson

What. - joey

please GOD No!!!! - Edgar Rodríguez

hrm. - michael sean wright

Crazy. - Eric Florenzano

Noo... please... don't let this be true! - Hector

I wonder if this means that photos of nursing women won't be allowed on FriendFeed anymore. - Thomas Hawk

Acquiring them as their R&D lab? - mikepk

any guesses on the price? Anything less than $100 million would mean that they sold it for too little. - Thomas Hawk

Boom! Direct shot to Twitter. - Jeff Beckham

Holy Fucking Cow. I don't want this. - zio bonino

Assuming it's true.... why would it happen? - Ryan - @magicofpi

I thought Google was going to acquire FF - Francine Hardaway

Well considering FriendFeed had investment rounds aroung $5m (If I remember correctly) a 20x return would put it around 100m, so that would be a good guess. - mikepk

WTF! - Carlos Ayala

If it's not true TechCrunch is not going to look good here. - Thomas Hawk

don't know if this is good or bad. i hate using facebook. - Dusty Edenfield

Screw You Arrington!! LOL - Edgar Rodríguez

If true this can't be good (at least not for FF users). - Brian Sullivan

So what does this really mean? - Michelle

I hope this is not true and Arrington dives in his own shit. (though it's kinda suspect that the friendfeeders haven't commented yet). - zio bonino

well if this is true, it'll be time to move on. i'll be able to concentrate on some of my projects, thats for sure. - Carlos Ayala

Oh god, please, no! - James Myatt

No! - Niki Costantini

i trully hope not :-(( - Del_

Well, so they bought they R&D department. Was about time. - Lars Trieloff

please keep the platforms separate. wow! - Stuart Miniman

Not liking the sound of this so far... Hopefully it won't turn out like the Yahoo - Flickr marriage! - Jeff P. Henderson

Yahoo Flickr wasn't bad IMO - LANjackal

Maybe I don't know enough about FF, but what is everyone so bummed about? - Katie Wynne

^Exactly. The purchase in and of itself doesn't mean anything. Personally I'm happy, FB probably saved FF's ass financially speaking in the long run - LANjackal from IM

I think some think that it's a bad idea Tsega because FF represents a *vastly* superior content platform than Facebook and some might be concerned that Facebook would end up killing FF as we know it and trying to assimilate us all into their inferior product. - Thomas Hawk

You nailed it, Thomas. - zio bonino

there was no "long run" to save FF from financially. It's Founders are loaded. They had the luxury of ample financial backing to run it for a long, long time. It will be interesting to see their reasoning on why they did this if in fact it is true. - Thomas Hawk

For me, FF and FB have two separate purposes: FB is for communicating with my IRL friends and FF is for consuming and sharing content with everyone else, but then I've been on FB since it was select universities only, so maybe I have an outdated opinion of what FB is. They need to keep both products. - James Myatt

OMG this is terrible :( - Ale♪nastrorosa

http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... - Thomas Hawk

Also, FB is blocked at work, but FF isn't. - James Myatt

+1 James - Daniel J. Pritchett

once upon a time it was "don't be evil".. - Cristian Conti

Seriously, Is this true? OMG this would be the worst thing ever!!! This is a joke RIGHT??!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

chances are FF will be nuked. There's not much in it for Facebook to run two separate networks. The wording that Bret chose to use on the blog pretty much paints that case in my opinion. FF is worth so much more for it's potential than for it's users and I think Facebook wouldn't care if they lost 100% of the current users if they get unfettered access to implement the best tech ideas into their current product. - Thomas Hawk

Jannifer, I wish it were. But it is true. You can read Brett's post here: http://ff.im/6pFNz - Dilip Dand

crazy crazy stuff. - Zac Bowling

yeah, the phrase "for the time being" is a scary one. - Ryan - @magicofpi

As in, "Friendfeed will continue to operate for the time being." - Ryan - @magicofpi

The team will probably be locked into a 2 year employment with Facebook while their equity fully vests and then will end up jumping ship. This acquisition will likely make Facebook a little bit better, but we probably lose FF in the process which is too bad. - Thomas Hawk

I was kinda hopin FriendFeed would open source some of their sauce but I guess now that's even less of a probability. - matthew john ernisse

I don't have a good feeling about this. :-( Why have two services with so many overlaps. FF will be integrated into FB in the long term. - Kol Tregaskes

gee, i step away from my desk for an hour and all heck breaks loose - Imabug

you'd better delete any content (photos for instance) you posted in your feed that you don't want FB to own when they get their claws in. - Joe The Sausage

Matthew: FB had the $$$. - Joe The Sausage

When I look at how I used FB and how I use FF (which I am still new to) FBs purchase would actually suck in my world. I only use FB to keep up with my fam and friends and I don't do that very well because I loathe the interface. FF is fresh for a newer user like me. Adds a lot of value in terms of the knowledge sharing that goes on here. To think that this service would get sucked up by FB is not a good thing. Mind you this is all from my very low-tech point of view. I just don't see how this is going to work. - Michelle

Agree with many of the comments on here. I'm concerned Facebook will basically just take all of FriendFeed's great properties and fold it in the large kingdom that is Facebook. A great service, FriendFeed may just become FB's Twitter. (Funny, too, that we're mourning the potential demise of FriendFeed on FriendFeed. Kind of like the newspaper biz writing 1000s of articles about its own demise in its papers. - Keith Trivitt

But all my extended family is on FaceBook! Where do I hide now? - Ted Gilchrist

Keith - well, now we know what happens when Facebook gets jealous... - Ryan - @magicofpi